Author : Bryony Randall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110700361X
Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.
Author : Michael H. Whitworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199556083
Political and social change during Woolf's lifetime led her to address the role of the state and the individual. Michael H. Whitworth shows how ideas and images from contemporary novelists, philosophers, theorists, and scientists fuelled her writing, and how critics, film-makers, and novelists have reinterpreted her work for later generations.
Author : Alex Zwerdling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520061842
"The finest critical book on Virgina Woolf to date. Alex Zwerdling's large and subtle study places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. The book leaves us with renewed appreciation for Woolf's work and for her mind." -Elaine Showalter, Princeton University "Buried beneath piles of criticism Virginia Woolf has at last been dug out by Alex Zwerdling. Virginia Woolf and the Real World is the most enlightened account of the real woman to appear for years." -Noel Annan, The Observer "A relief from the Bloomsbury fan dub: penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work." -Richard Mayne, Encounter "A well written book that deals with a field of Woolf studies that badly needs dear thinking and dear expression .... I think it a most useful work and in every way first rate." -Quentin Bell
Author : Jane Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139457888
For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9180949509
Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.
Author : Alison Booth
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501722808
The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism.
Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521896940
A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.
Author : Jeremy Hawthorn
Publisher : London : published for Sussex University Press by Chatto & Windus
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
ISBN :
Author : Julie Vandivere
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1942954093
Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries helps us comprehend the ways that women writers and artists contributed to and complicated modernism by contextualizing them alongside Woolf's work.
Author : Linda Nicole Blair
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2017-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476627215
From novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf, changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our notions of what it means to be human. Her novels invite readers to envision a world in which stories have the power to effect positive change. This book explores the phenomenon of Story as practiced by Woolf, interpreting her work in the context of literary Darwinism--a critical approach focusing on patterns of innate human behavior.
